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U.K. Dealer Sells 'Death Trap' Twice, Faces Jail Time

The Truth About Cars

Hickman has admitted to "engaging in a misleading commercial practice and engaging in a commercial practice which contravened the requirements of professional diligence" according to Car Dealer Magazine. The issues the vehicle had included a rusty suspension that failed while the second customer was driving the car, shortly after buying it.

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2023 Honda Accord Hybrid Review - The Unofficial Car Of TTAC Readers

The Truth About Cars

While virtually everyone reading and commenting on our daily stories is an enthusiast of some persuasion, we can generally count on our readers to be pragmatic and practical when it comes to either buying a new car or recommending a new car to others. For most people looking to buy an everyday car, that’s perfectly fine.

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How to Have a Greener Christmas?

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The most sustainable option for a Christmas tree is to buy or rent a live potted tree with roots and replant it after the holidays. If this is not a practical option, buying a real tree rather than an artificial one is the greenest choice. LED lights also last longer than standard light strings, offsetting the higher upfront cost.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

One of the standard processes has four teraflops—four million million floating point operations a second on a piece of silicon that costs 5 bucks. So one of the standard processes has four teraflops—four million million floating point operations a second on a piece of silicon that costs 5 bucks. Brooks: Absolutely.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

That goal led ultimately to a page description language called PostScript, today the de facto standard of desktop publishing. proved loath to support a truly standard language. And Xerox begged the issue of standardization by producing several versions of the language, so the company’s older laser printers could run some form of it.

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2023 Toyota Prius Prime Review - Time For Me To Fly

The Truth About Cars

No doubt you’ve seen it, whether here on TTAC, other websites or magazines (GASP! Yeah, Tim just reviewed the standard Prius last week. That means you can hitch up to 120v or 240v in your garage and add power, rather than relying on the engine and momentum to charge the batteries as in a standard hybrid. or on the roads.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

Cars That Think

One of our first commercially launched color products, in 2010, used a color filter—an array of squares printed onto a layer of glass placed on top of the standard black-and-white ink layer. Companies have built E Ink screens into millions of these tags, shipping them throughout the world to retailers such as Best Buy, Macy’s, and Walmart.

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